The Counterpoint to CR’s Argument, as Stated Below
We already gave them $900 Billion. (Or, as I would prefer to write it, just so everyone understands: $900,000,000,000. About 3,000 a person, or 26.7% of the annual median household income, assuming a...
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Forty years ago, in 1968, an American major after the battle of Ben Tre in Viet Nam was quoted by Peter Arnett as having declared, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” Now, we have the...
View ArticleWhat about the OCC ruling?
by divorced one like Bush The OCC is: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency The OCC was established in 1863 as a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The OCC is headed by the Comptroller...
View Articlecrony capitalism and casino capitalism–bad flavors for right or left, per...
by Linda Beale crony capitalism and casino capitalism–bad flavors for right or left, per Kristof and Stiglitz The Occupy Wall Street focus on “we are the 99 percent” juxtaposed with the CBO’s recent...
View ArticleGuess who wrote this op-ed??
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to...
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View ArticleClosing Wall Street’s casino
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View Article"Business Leaders of Today are Not Capitalists"
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View ArticleCrony Capitalism And Its Variety Of Flavors
I can’t help but think that Romney’s newly invigorated crony-capital (e.g., Solyndra) schtick is very much a double-edged sword for him. I mean, isn’t he the candidate who, notwithstanding his...
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Don’t encourage them…
Via Holly, I learned of this cool site called: Sidewalk Bubblegum. The subtitle is: Cartoons about War, Racism, Sexism, Capitalism, Worker Rights, Human Rights, the Environment and Consumerism. I...
View ArticleThe Counterpoint to CR’s Argument, as Stated Below
We already gave them $900 Billion. (Or, as I would prefer to write it, just so everyone understands: $900,000,000,000. About 3,000 a person, or 26.7% of the annual median household income, assuming a...
View Article"Ben Tre Logic" Redux: History Repeats Itself
Forty years ago, in 1968, an American major after the battle of Ben Tre in Viet Nam was quoted by Peter Arnett as having declared, “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” Now, we have the...
View ArticleWhat about the OCC ruling?
by divorced one like Bush The OCC is: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency The OCC was established in 1863 as a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The OCC is headed by the Comptroller...
View Articlecrony capitalism and casino capitalism–bad flavors for right or left, per...
by Linda Beale crony capitalism and casino capitalism–bad flavors for right or left, per Kristof and Stiglitz The Occupy Wall Street focus on “we are the 99 percent” juxtaposed with the CBO’s recent...
View ArticleGuess who wrote this op-ed??
(Elizabeth Warren has hired a campaign manager and has thousands of volunteers signing up for her campaign for the Senate seat in MA that Senator Scott Brown currently occupies. He has a lot of work to...
View ArticleHank Paulson and Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
byMike Kimel Barry Ritholtz points us to a Bloomberg article showing, once again, that when it came to measures to prop up the economy in 2008, some animals are more equal than others: Paulson...
View ArticleClosing Wall Street’s casino
Via Reuters comes David Cay Johnston’s musing on Closing Wall Street’s casino: A superb example of a sound rule in law and economics that needs reviving, because it can halt the rampant speculation in...
View Article"Business Leaders of Today are Not Capitalists"
Via Mark Thoma comes this thinking on the nature of our economic system and by John Kay at the Financial Times in Business Leaders of Today are Not Capitalists. John Kay says that the term “capitalism”...
View ArticleCrony Capitalism And Its Variety Of Flavors
I can’t help but think that Romney’s newly invigorated crony-capital (e.g., Solyndra) schtick is very much a double-edged sword for him. I mean, isn’t he the candidate who, notwithstanding his claimed...
View ArticleDon’t encourage them…
Via Holly, I learned of this cool site called: Sidewalk Bubblegum. The subtitle is: Cartoons about War, Racism, Sexism, Capitalism, Worker Rights, Human Rights, the Environment and Consumerism. I...
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